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A place at the table

2022
Sixth-graders Sara, a Pakistani American, and Elizabeth, a Jewish girl, connect in an after school cooking club and bond over food and their mothers' struggles to become United States citizens.

A place at the table

Sixth-graders Sara, a Pakistani American, and Elizabeth, a Jewish girl, connect in an after school cooking club and bond over food and their mothers' struggles to become United States citizens.

New jobs, new opportunities

British immigrants arrive in America, 1830s-1890s
Looks at the British immigration to the United States, discussing how they arrived, where they lived, what jobs were available and more.
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New jobs, new opportunities

British immigrants arrive in America (1830s-1890s)
2016
Looks at the British immigration to the United States, discussing how they arrived, where they lived, what jobs were available and more.

Hitch-22

a memoir
2011
Tells the life story of controversial public intellectual, Christopher Hitches, describing his views on war, religion, and other topics.

Tracing our English roots

1995
Describes the fundamental contributions English Americans made to government, science, education, literature, technology, and other aspects of American culture.

Coming to America

immigrants from the British Isles
1980
Discusses those people who came to the United States from the British Isles as the settlers of new English colonies and, later, as immigrants seeking a home in a new nation. Includes a chronology of the U.S. immigration laws.

Invisible immigrants

the adaptation of English and Scottish immigrants in nineteenth-century America
1972

New industries, new jobs

British immigrants come to America (1830s-1890s)
2004
Examines some of the reasons why so many immigrants from Great Britain came to the United States between the 1830s and the 1890s, many of them in search of work, and discusses where they settled and what their lives were like in the new country.

British in America

2006
A history of the immigration of the British from England, Wales, and Scotland to America and how they founded a new nation and government.

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